Re: [fuse-devel] losetup and fuse

[Mike H. <mh...@gl...>]

On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:16:10PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > As I read in an earlier Discussion and somewhere else it is considered
> > as a Problem to losetup a File from a Fuse-Filesystem into a virtual
> > Block-Device.
> 
> There are certain deadlock scenarios that might happen with loop over
> fuse.  Recent kernels have gotten better in this respect, doing this
> on 2.6.24 should be relatively safe.

Do you have pointers about such deadlocks ?

Mike